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In the underbelly of the city, Jeon Jungkook is known by other names-none of them legal. He's a fixer for one of the most ruthless gangs in the region, and his reputation is built on efficiency and silence. When a rival operation starts moving in on his organization's territory, the solution isn't a hit. It's a cut from the inside.
So he becomes Professor Damian Moretti.
The university is a soft target and the perfect cover. Daytime lectures on criminal law and economics give him access, credibility, and time to map the rival's network. At night, he's back in the world of blood and leverage. The plan is clean: get close, gather intel, collapse them before they know what happened. No attachments. No mistakes.
Then there's Elena Torres.
A graduate student with nothing to prove and everything to lose, Elena isn't impressed by titles or intimidation. She dissects his lectures, calls out inconsistencies, and treats him like any other academic-except she notices the way his hands don't shake when she mentions wiretaps. She notices the way he watches exits. She notices him watching her.
Always targeting her.
What starts as a game of observation turns into something neither of them can afford. The more he tries to keep her at arm's length, the more she pulls at the edges of his carefully constructed lie. And the more he learns about her, the harder it becomes to see her as collateral.
Now two clocks are running. One is his mission, ticking toward an extraction that leaves no one alive who knows too much. The other is her, getting closer to the truth with every conversation. In a world where loyalty is bought and betrayal is expected, choosing her means declaring war on everyone-including himself.
Trust is the first casualty. Survival might be the second.
This is a dark thriller about deception, control, and the moment a calculated man realizes some targets can't be crossed off a list.